The New York attorney general suing over Trump University is now investigating the Trump Foundation

The New York attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, said on Tuesday he had opened an inquiry into the Donald J. Trump Foundation to ensure the Republican presidential nominee’s charity was complying with state laws governing nonprofits.

Schneiderman, a supporter of Trump’s Democratic rival in the presidential race, Hillary Clinton, brought a fraud lawsuit against the real-estate mogul and his now-defunct Trump University in 2013, seeking $40 million in restitution plus penalties and other costs.

In a CNN interview on Tuesday, Schneiderman said his office had also brought Trump’s charitable foundation under scrutiny.

“My interest in this issue really is in my capacity as regulator of nonprofits in New York state,” the elected Democratic official said. “And we have been concerned that the Trump Foundation may have engaged in some impropriety from that point of view.”

Schneiderman added: “We have been looking into the Trump Foundation to make sure it’s complying with the laws that govern charities in New York.” He did not elaborate on any specific wrongdoing Trump’s nonprofit might be suspected of committing.

Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung dismissed Schneiderman’s assertions as entirely motivated by presidential politics, calling the attorney general a “partisan hack who has turned a blind eye to the Clinton Foundation for years.”

Cheung called Schneiderman’s comments “nothing more than another left-wing hit job designed to distract” attention from Clinton’s recent missteps on the campaign trail.

Trump has accused Clinton of being corrupted by donors to the Clinton Foundation global charity founded by her husband, Bill Clinton, while she was US secretary of state from 2009 to 2013.

Clinton has dismissed Trump’s allegation as a political smear. There has been no evidence that foreign donors to the foundation obtained favors from the State Department while Clinton headed the agency.

Schneiderman made his remarks when asked on CNN about calls from Democrats in Congress for a federal investigation of a $25,000 donation in 2013 from the Trump Foundation to a political committee supporting Florida’s Republican attorney general, Pam Bondi.

Democrats have cited an Associated Press report that Bondi solicited the donation personally, around the time her office was debating whether to join New York state’s investigation into Trump’s real-estate training school in Florida. According to the AP, Bondi, who was seeking reelection at the time, broke off the lawsuit deliberations after the check arrived.

Bondi, who has endorsed Trump, has called the AP report misleading.

(Writing and reporting by Steve Gorman in Los Angeles; Additional reporting by Mohammad Zargham in Washington; Editing by Eric Beech and Peter Cooney)